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On 16 Nov 2025 05:15:42 GMT, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

> I believe as well as "set compatible" I had do do "syntax off" and there
> was still some thing I never figured out where in some case it was
> "helpfully" automatically inserting something.  Can't recall exactly
> what triggered that.  There was also maybe something where it would
> watch the file I was editing and try to be helpful if it had been
> modified by anything else.  Don't care, shut up.

I find that helpful. I sometimes wind up with the same file open in VS 
Code and Vim and make edits in one or the other. 'foo.c has changed. Do 
you want to reload' has saved me a few times.